Robert Yates Racing - LMS Media Tour visit

The Lowe's Motor Speedway media tour continued on Tuesday
with a stop at Robert Yates Racing, where drivers Dale Jarrett and
Elliott Sadler have new crew chiefs. A transcript of formal remarks from
both drivers, along with car owner...

The Lowe's Motor Speedway media tour continued on Tuesday
with a stop at Robert Yates Racing, where drivers Dale Jarrett and
Elliott Sadler have new crew chiefs. A transcript of formal remarks from
both drivers, along with car owner Robert Yates, in addition to a brief
Q&A session follows:

OPENING REMARKS

DALE JARRETT -- No. 88 UPS Ford Fusion

"This has been
a lot of fun for us (making the UPS commercials). Each and every year
they come up with something different and this year having Elliott be a
part of it, obviously, was a lot of fun. The tires that he wore out in
making all of that was pretty amazing. They make it so much fun for me
to be there for two days and they turn out well. I think we've
measured this through the years and I've probably said this a
number of times, but when you've got fans of all the other drivers
hollering at you about racing the truck you know your campaign is going
pretty well. We have a great time in doing it and I was really glad that
Elliott could be a part of it. I'm certainly glad to have UPS as a
sponsor. I feel very fortunate that here at Robert Yates Racing we have
some pretty major corporations -- as you look around and look at our
cars -- that we represent here and I think that says a lot for what
Robert and Doug and Eddie have done at this organization, and the
commercials are fun to do."

ON THE UPS TRUCK IN THE COMMERCIAL.
"The guys that actually did all the work, I think they were from
Arizona, and they rebuilt this truck. I actually drove this truck when
we did these commercials over at Nashville. It was pretty incredible.
They've still got a little work to do aero-wise on it. It's
not nearly as slick as that nice Fusion sitting over there, but
we'll keep working on that. So I'm looking forward to that
day when I actually get to race the truck." WHEN WILL THAT BE?
"They haven't told me that. Getting to that point is kind of
like being at home getting your next instructions of what you've
got to do there. Take out the trash. Pick up the cleaning. Whatever it
is, so they haven't told me when or where, but it's coming so
keep watching."

ELLIOTT SADLER -- No. 38 M&M's Ford Fusion

"I'm gonna hit on this again. With the great sponsors we
have here at Robert Yates Racing, it's amazing. Citi has come on
board with so much enthusiasm, being new to the sport, and first year on
the race track last year we had some pretty good success, but not the
Victory Lane success that we need to give those guys. So I'm
coming back for 16 more races and I'm very, very excited to work as
a tutor and a mentor to these guys -- Steven and Matt -- for
the Citi Financial Ford. It's a great looking race car.
I've fallen back in love with Busch racing and for my first time in
a long time I get to go back to Daytona to kind of kick off the season
and run the Daytona Busch race. I can't wait. I've got a
pretty full slate ahead of me this year, but can't wait to get it
started. I'm just ready to go. I'm kind of ready to put my
uniform on and let's get going."

ROBERT YATES, Car Owner -- RYR Ford Fusions

"We're very excited and there's a whole lot new in
store for this year. No more taking care of your tires. We're
leasing them so we can just burn 'em up (laughing). Notice that
Dale's new car is gonna drive like it's got four tires on the
rear axle, so that's gonna be good to handle the 900 horsepower
that Doug's gonna give him. We're excited and we're
looking forward to it.

"Certainly I have the sponsorship of UPS and Citi Financial
and the M&M people. They're three of the best companies in the
world and with that comes a lot of responsibility. We're looking
forward to it.

"I think our engineering department and all of our people,
Tommy, Slugger and everybody that's under them, which is quite a
few. I can't wait to get there. I'm looking forward to it.
I enjoyed Daytona like I haven't enjoyed it since 2000. In
drafting and what it looked like there, come on, let's go racing.
I can't wait to get there. I'm looking forward to it.

"I was around when the Torino came out. It was designed
for two purposes -- to drive on the street -- when it sells at
Ford dealerships -- and certainly win on Sunday so you can sell more
of them on Monday. The other day I gave this talk about how John Holman
used to get on everybody about supporting their sponsors in all the
ways. Eating M&M's and Combos and some dog food when we
don't run good (joking).

"When I mention things to people about what they should drive and
how they should support it. The comebacks are, 'Well, it
doesn't compete with this other car.' 'It doesn't
compete on mileage. It doesn't compete on quality.' Well, I
tell you what, we've got a winner right here. I can dog a car. I
can drive it automatically with a five-speed. It's got the future
and the new NASCAR engine in it -- it's a four-cylinder
I've been pushing for a long time. It runs like Jack's
bear. It's a good car. It's a good value and I want to see
us buy a whole lot of them on Friday so it'll just be a win when we
win on Sunday to sell some more on Monday. It is a great car and
I'm happy to be part of it. Certainly, it's important to us
that Ford's business is good and it's also important to Ford
that our business is good, so we're business partner and
we're up for the challenge. We're gonna get after them. We
look forward to this thing doing like the Torino did in the sixties.
We're looking forward to it."

Q&A SESSION

ROBERT YATES

WILL FORD'S ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY HAVE
AN EFFECT ON YOUR OPERATION? "The fact that the company made money
was a big plus. You have to have a vehicle that people want to buy. You
have to compete in price. It's like in our business, you get
leap-frogged and I think it's our turn to jump the other guys and
be ahead of them. Sometimes you have to make tough calls in business.
We have to do them in our business, but at the end of the day you have to
a good financial business model. It's important that we do it here
at Robert Yates Racing and certainly it's important that Ford Motor
Company does.

"I'd also like to mention, if I could, that with Citi
Financial we have a program where we're actually working with our
families here and their personal financial planning. I think
that's something we all have to look at -- how sound our
personal business is with our families, how we use the products --
the fossil fuels and how we look at energy. I think we're really
rounding the corner where we've got to address all these things in
America. We need a good energy policy. It's a new deal and
it's tough.

"I worked at Holman-Moody and there were 325 employees. I left
there employee number 27 and it's tough, but you have to have a
product. You have to win at it as a business and, hopefully, all of
these people will turn around and their life won't be --
it's sad when you just keep going through the layoffs and going
through the layoffs. Sometimes it's better off to clean it up.
Realize it, do it and I think that's what Bill Ford is doing.
He's got to be competitive and he knows what he's got to
compete with, but I think we've got a great chance.

"I'm more concerned that GM and Ford have a really good
business model. For race fans, I want you to support it. I think
they've supported us long enough, so that's my plea.
It's not something that they're mean about doing -- the
ones that get laid off -- but at the end of the day when you go to
work, you'll have a job and you'll be working for somebody
that's more efficient and it's working for you. It's
sad when you keep losing money and keep losing money. Finally, you have
to make the call. I applaud Bill Ford for doing it, and as much as we
want to win in what we do, we want Ford to win also."

DALE JARRETT -- No. 88 UPS Ford Fusion

DO YOU SAVOR TRIPS TO
DAYTONA NOW REALIZING YOUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE DWINDLING? "Yeah, no
doubt. You look at Daytona, and I guess I'll compare it since the
new golf deal is being compared to the NASCAR playoffs I'll compare
a little bit and say that Daytona is one of our majors. So you look at
those opportunities knowing that whatever there are two, three more of
these, yeah, it's big. The off season gives you that time to
evaluate things and look at the 500, and when you come here and see the
things that are happening, it's easy to get excited. When you go
to the race track and try new things like we did at Daytona and you get a
lot of good feedback and a good positive feel for the car you get excited
about that.

"Ford's had a dry spell at Daytona. Over the last couple of
years, even though we might have gone there and won poles and things,
it's been a little bit hard to get excited and think that you had a
chance to win. I'm pretty sure, if you look back since 2000 when
we won the 500, Ford hasn't led a whole lot of laps -- and I
think that was only because they were being courteous to us at that time
that you could lead them -- they were under caution or something, it
wasn't much under green.

"We have a product now with the Fusion that it's gonna allow
us to do more of that I believe -- to be competitive and to go to
Daytona. I'm sure you're gonna here this all week.
Everybody is excited because we're all at zero points right now and
everybody thinks they've done everything that they need to to be
competitive for this year, but I know in looking around here at Robert
Yates Racing that we have done that. Again, we have a new product with
the Fusion and that's gonna help us tremendously.

"Our engine shop is second to none and the engineering staff that
we have put in place here is by far the best that we've assembled
here. And we've got two guys leading these race teams in Tommy and
Slugger that know how to win races and know how to do well at Daytona,
so, yeah, I get excited about that.

"If I can just go back a second to what was asked of
Robert. I think one thing that could help in the United States and help
our car companies here, and certainly I'm more interested in Ford,
but, in general, GM and Ford is that I know that Ford Motor Company makes
a great product and the media is very powerful network. The public
relies a lot on what is printed. What they see. What they hear. What
they read. Unfortunately, over the last few years more of that has been
said that these car manufacturers from overseas make a better product and
I don't believe that's the case right now. We have very good
people working and building very good products here and if the media
would help a little bit there in saying and telling the truth --
that we do have very good products, especially these Ford vehicles, then
I think that those type of things might go away a lot more and we
won't be hearing about having cutbacks and closing plants and
people not having jobs. So tell all of your buddies that we'd
appreciate the help there."

DOUG YATES, Engine Builder -- Roush Yates Engines

WHAT ARE
YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE CHANGE TO UNLEADED FUEL. WHAT CHALLENGES
WILL YOU FACE WITH THAT? "First of all, I'm glad that
they're moving that way. I think that's something we tried
earlier and the coating technology did not exist to make it work. It was
not readily available, but now I don't think it's going to be
a very hard transition. There are some coatings that you apply to the
valves. The valve seat recession was the biggest problem and I think
that we can overcome that pretty easily. I just wish they were gonna do
it in '07 and not '08 because I think that's something
we need to do as a group. We need to lead by example and I'm
looking forward to that challenge, and I'm glad to see NASCAR make
some change in that way."